981 private quotes tagged men

“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.” — Francis Bacon

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“Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.” — Ayn Rand

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“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.” — Francis Bacon

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“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?” — Victor Hugo

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“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.” — Francis Bacon

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“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.” — Aristotle

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“All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.” — Sun Tzu

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“The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.” — Voltaire

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“Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” — George Orwell

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“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.” — John F. Kennedy

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“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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